If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
-Paulo Coelho
True realisation of the actual nature of this material world, its perishable, transitory and illusory aspects best dawns on a person in suffering.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
-Charles Dickens
"Great Expectations"
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
-Tennessee Williams
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
-Helen Keller